Orange County High School
| Orange County High School | |
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| Address | |
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201 Selma Road Orange, Virginia  United States
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| Coordinates | 38°14′43.5″N 78°5′47″W / 38.245417°N 78.09639°WCoordinates: 38°14′43.5″N 78°5′47″W / 38.245417°N 78.09639°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1952 |
| School district | Orange County Public Schools |
| Principal | Kelly Guempel |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Color(s) | Orange & Blue |
| Mascot | Hornets |
| Nickname | The Fighting Hornets |
| Yearbook | The Golden Horseshoe |
| Website | http://ocps-internet.ocss-va.org/ochs/SitePages/index.aspx |
| All data from school website/handbook. | |
 Orange County High School in Orange, Virginia |
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Orange County High School is a high school for children from grades nine to twelve located in Orange, Virginia.
Dedicated on November 9, 1952 at an approximate cost of US$1,150,000, Orange County High School combined students from the Orange & Unionville High Schools, and the Barboursville & Gordonsville Junior High Schools. In 1967, new classrooms, science areas, a cafeteria, and a library were added. In 1995, The Hornet Sports Center Field House was completed to provide students and the community at large access to a year round physical training center with a weight room, indoor track, basketball, volleyball as well as squash and handball courts. In autumn 2003, the school completed a multimillion-dollar multi-phased renovation, that now provides the faculty and student body population a state of the art cafeteria, library and completely renovated classrooms to include an acoustically integrated choral and music instrument practice rooms along with other improvements for student use and safety while adding new larger classrooms contained in a new wing of the school. Starting in 2013, a phase of renovation occurred where the Science lab facilities were expanded and renovated and additional classroom were placed in the front of the school as semi-permanent structures.
Orange County High School is in the AAA (moved up for 2011-2012 school year) Commonwealth District of the VHSL, and offers a variety of sports, including swimming, basketball, indoor track, outdoor track, gymnastics, football, golf, softball, tennis, cross country, field hockey, volleyball, wrestling.
The school has won three VHSL championships in track, one in girls' track, and two in boys' track. The school has also won two state championships in softball.
From NBC29.com: Orange County High School held an event in celebration of black history on Thursday, March 12, 2015. The program included historical speeches and songs, but also included students reciting things like, "I was falsely harassed for selling cigarettes and was put into a choke hold eventually leading to my death. I can't breathe. My name is Eric Garner."
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